California Society for Ecological Restoration Conference Meeting in Santa Barbara CA Oct 26,27,28 2000

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network sbpcnet at silcom.com
Mon Oct 23 10:09:24 PDT 2000


Hi
        For those who are interested in learning and hearing what is the state
of Ecological Restoration in California . You might want to attend the Annual
Conference of the California Society for Eclogical Restoration when they meet
at UCSB on Fri/Sat Oct 27,28. http://www.sercal.org/schedule.htm
and 3 Great Workshops  An Analytical Approach to Restoration
Planning,Restoring
Riparian Habitats and  
Erosion Control on Thursday Oct 26  http://www.sercal.org/workshops.htm
Please go the website to get info on cost and registration. Deadline is Sept
22/2000


Conference Schedule

Friday October 27, 2000

7:30 - 9:00 A.M. Registration; Poster & Exhibitor Set-up

9:00 - 9:10 Welcome - John Coy, SERCAL President

Plenary Session Trends and Lessons In Ecological Restoration

9: 10 - 10:00 Keynote Address: “ Confessions of a Restorationist: Lessons
Learned During 15 Years of Planning, Experimentation and Assessment “ Wayne R.
Ferren, Jr., UCSB Museum of Systematics and Ecology, Department of Ecology,
Evolution and Marine Biology.

10:00 - 10:30 Open Discussion

10:30 - 10.45 Break

10:45 - 12:00 Panel Discussion: “ Dirty Secrets: Soils and Restoration”

Moderator: Margot Griswold, Habitat Restoration Specialist, Earthworks
Construction and Design, Los Angeles. Panelists: Vic Claassen, Soil Science,
Dept.of Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis;

David Kelley, Soil Geomorphology, Kelley and Associates Environmental
Sciences,
Inc., Davis;

Ted St. John, Soil Ecology, Reforestation Technology, Inc.

12:00 - 1:30 PM Lunch Break

Concurrent Technical Sessions

1:30 - 3:30 Session 1: Technology in Ecological Restoration, GIS/GPS

Chair: Kris Bonner, Applied Engineering Technology - Jones & Stokes, Irvine

1:30 - 4:00 Session 2: Invasive Weeds

Chair: Ron Unger, Senior Restoration Ecologist, EDAW, Inc., Sacramento

1:30 - 3:30 Session 3: Soil Ecosystems and Restoration Success

Chair: David Kelley, Kelley & Associates Environmental Sciences, Inc., Davis

1:30 - 4:00 Session 4: Salt Marsh Restoration

Chair: Wayne R. Ferren, Jr., UCSB, Exec. Director Museum of Systematics and
Ecology; Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology

6:30 - 9:30 An Evening of Celebration - Corwin Pavilion. Open to all
registrants.


Saturday October 28, 2000

9:30 - 11:30 AM Concurrent Technical Sessions

Session 5: Mitigation Banking & Project Funding Sources

Co-Chairs: Craig Denisoff, Vice President New Projects / Governmental Affairs,
Greg Sutter, Executive Vice President./ Director of Restoration, Wildlands,
Inc., Citrus Heights

Session 6: Policy and Legal Issues

Chair: Joyce Grant Hunting, Director, Wetlands Studies & Permitting Services,
EIP Associates., Sacramento

Session 7: Coastal Sage Scrub Restoration

Co-Chairs: Margot Griswold, Habitat Restoration Specialist, Earthworks
Construction & Design, Los Angeles ; Ileene Anderson, Anderson Botanical
Consulting, W. Hollywood.

Session 8: Riparian / Urban Streams Restoration - Part I

Chair: Debra Bishop, Senior Restoration Ecologist, EDAW, Inc., Sacramento

11:30 - 1:00 PM Lunch Break

1:00 - 3:00 PM Concurrent Technical Sessions

Session 9: Panel Discussion- "A Vision of California Restored"

Moderator: Lisa Wallace, Earth Island Institute, San Francisco.

Panelists representing Science, NGO, Government, Labor and Business:
Development in progress.

Session 10: Channel Islands

Chair: Kathryn McEachern, USGS - BRD, Channel Islands Field Station, Ventura

Session 11: Arid and Mined Lands Restoration

Chair: Karen Wiese, CA Dept. of Conservation, Office of Mine Reclamation

Session 12: Riparian / Urban Streams Restoration - Part II

Chair: Debra Bishop, Senior Restoration Ecologist, EDAW, Inc., Sacramento

3:00 - 3:30 Break

3.30 - 4:30 Conference Closure, SERCAL Members meeting - Corwin Pavilion

4:30 Poster/Exhibitor Breakdown

Please Note: As sessions are finalized,

abstracts will be posted on SERCAL’s website www.sercal.org


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